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It’s November 27, 2017 at about 3 p.m. when Hanford Police Officer Jeff Davis first hears a dispatch about a deadly shooting in the small Central Valley town of Lemoore. Minutes later, he notices a blue Dodge Charger at a traffic stop. He checks the license plate numbers against those he’s written on his hand from the BOL or Be on the Lookout. “I put two and two together and I thought, well this has got to be the suspect in the Lemoore shooting,” Davis tells investigators later that day, according to documents released by the Hanford Police Department under California’s new police transparency law. The law means the public now has unprecedented insight into the moments when officers make life and death decisions. The driver of the blue Dodge, Juan Luis Castro, sees Davis and pulls around another car. Davis and several other officers pursue him, speeding along rural roads, hitting 100 mph. Davis radios his department: “We got CHP about a mile in front of us, looks like they’re going to
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